There is a truth about SaaS (software as a service) solutions that twist the definition of cloud-based technology. Is the solution offered by the vendor a lift and shift of their traditional software ...

Software is called "multi-tenanted" if a single instance can serve multiple tenants, and multi-tenancy is often referred to as an application "architecture." Cloud-native technology is challenging ...

Success with a multi-tenant architecture requires the close alignment of design, use case, and underlying technology. Let’s dive into the key design patterns, their benefits, and their challenges.

Multi-tenancy and multi-instance emerged as a discussion topic at a recent ServiceNow event. Brian Sommer unpicks the arguments. In a multi-tenant cloud application, essentially all of the customers ...

Some of my colleagues kicked off a furious discussion. Josh Greenbaum, Phil Wainewright and Bob Warfield are staking out the multi-tenant v single-tenant battlefield. I'll lob in my two penn'orth. I ...

A cleverly chosen multi-tenant architecture creates the necessary structures. The tenants share an application with other tenants, all of which are isolated from each other so that the application ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. The first public cloud services ...

Dennis Howlett has summarized the story so far in a debate I was having these past few days with Josh Greenbaum, Bob Warfield and assorted other Enterprise Irregulars (and it's not the first time I've ...